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Elias Canetti
Age: 89 †
Born: 1905
Born: July 25
Died: 1994
Died: August 14
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Elías Canetti
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Justice requires that everyone should have enough to eat. But it also requires that everyone should contribute to the production of food.
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I would like to become tolerant without overlooking anything, persecute no one even when all people persecute me become better without noticing it become sadder, but enjoy living become more serene, be happy in others belong to no one, grow in everyone love the best, comfort the worst not even hate myself anymore.
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The paranoiac is the exact image of the ruler. The only difference is their position in the world. One might even think the paranoiac the more impressive of the two because he is sufficient unto himself and cannot be shaken by failure.
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Everything one records contains a grain of hope, no matter how deeply it may come from despair.
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There emanates from superlatives a destructive force.
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He would like to start from scratch. Where is scratch?
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Whether or not God is dead: it is impossible to keep silent about him who was there for so long.
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One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.
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As if one could know the good a person is capable of, when one doesn't know the bad he might do.
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I try to imagine someone saying to Shakespeare, 'Relax!
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Most religions do not make men better, only warier.
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Whenever you observe an animal closely, you feel as if a human being sitting inside were making fun of you.
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The first effect of adjusting to other people is that one becomes boring.
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Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.
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All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.
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It is only in a crowd that man can become free of this fear of being touched. That is the only situation in which the fear changes into its opposite… The reversal of fear of being touched belongs to the nature of crowds. The feeling of relief is most striking where the density of the crowd is greatest
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It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes.
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One should use praise to recognize what one is not.
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I want to keep smashing myself until I am whole.
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History portrays everything as if it could not have come otherwise. History is on the side of what happened.
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